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Date: 15 April 2013 05:41:12
The right wing press love to knock the National Health Service.
Last week it was the turn of Metro, the free newspaper that is available on buses and at train stations all over the country. On Thursday they ran the headline NHS phone system 'is a chaotic mess'.
Now I love the NHS, it does a fantastic job. Free health care available to everyone in a country of over 60 million people is no mean feat. Yet the press love to knock it.
The story in Metro is about a trial of the new non emergency 111 phone line being tried out in under half a few areas of the country. Yes there re problems, it's new, it's on trial.
Look at the actual criticism. Metro say,"However, in west (sic) Yorkshire, patients say they have waited up to 14 hours for a doctor to arrive " So what? It is a non emergency service, you can still dial 999 in an emergency. Do you expect a doctor to come out in the middle of the night for something that isn't an emergency?
If you call the non-emergency service in the evening do not expect someone to do anything until the next morning, after all it isn't an emergency, there is no need for it.
Poor, shoddy journalism. Metro journalists, go back to school and learn how to report news accurately. I suggest kindergarten.You make me sick, good job we have the wonderful NHS.